Bhima Koregaon case: HC grants four-day bail to Hany Babu for cataract surgical procedure, medical check-up

By PTI

MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Friday granted momentary bail of 4 days to former Delhi University professor Hany Babu, an accused within the Elgar Parishad-Maoist hyperlinks case, to bear cataract surgical procedure and a medical check-up at a city-based hospital.

Babu, who has been lodged in Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai since nearly the final two years, had moved the excessive courtroom earlier this month in search of momentary bail on well being grounds.

The activist, in his petition, had stated that he wanted bail for 3 months for present process a cataract surgical procedure and getting therapy for higher belly ache and osteoarthritis on the non-public Breach Candy Hospital right here.

A division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and P D Naik, after listening to the arguments of each side, allowed Babu to bear therapy on the hospital in Mumbai for 4 days.

The courtroom directed that Babu be taken to a hospital for the surgical procedure and well being check-up on December 20 and be introduced again to the jail on December 24, his lawyer Yug Chaudhry stated.

The case pertains to alleged inflammatory speeches delivered on the Elgar Parishad conclave held at Shaniwarwada in Pune on December 31, 2017, which the police claimed triggered violence the following day close to the Koregaon Bhima conflict memorial.

Pune Police, (who probed the case earlier than it was transferred to the National Investigation Agency) claimed that the conclave had been backed by Maoists.

MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Friday granted momentary bail of 4 days to former Delhi University professor Hany Babu, an accused within the Elgar Parishad-Maoist hyperlinks case, to bear cataract surgical procedure and a medical check-up at a city-based hospital.

Babu, who has been lodged in Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai since nearly the final two years, had moved the excessive courtroom earlier this month in search of momentary bail on well being grounds.

The activist, in his petition, had stated that he wanted bail for 3 months for present process a cataract surgical procedure and getting therapy for higher belly ache and osteoarthritis on the non-public Breach Candy Hospital right here.

A division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and P D Naik, after listening to the arguments of each side, allowed Babu to bear therapy on the hospital in Mumbai for 4 days.

The courtroom directed that Babu be taken to a hospital for the surgical procedure and well being check-up on December 20 and be introduced again to the jail on December 24, his lawyer Yug Chaudhry stated.

The case pertains to alleged inflammatory speeches delivered on the Elgar Parishad conclave held at Shaniwarwada in Pune on December 31, 2017, which the police claimed triggered violence the following day close to the Koregaon Bhima conflict memorial.

Pune Police, (who probed the case earlier than it was transferred to the National Investigation Agency) claimed that the conclave had been backed by Maoists.